A Facebook photo featuring San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman and a fan helped detectives nab an attempted robber at a Washington state smoke shop last month.Jason Shaver, 37, is charged with first-degree attempted robbery after a man tried to rob the Orillia Smoke Shop just outside Seattle.A man wearing a motorcycle club hooded sweatshirt and motorcycle helmet entered the store about 9 p.m. April 24, Kent police reports say. He picked several items and asked the clerk to place the items in his backpack.He then reportedly left the store, prompting the clerk to remove the items from the man's bag. When he returned, he allegedly demanded the items back and also ordered the clerk to open the cash register.When the clerk refused his orders, the man fired a gun from inside his hoodie pocket, grabbed his backpack and kicked a glass display case, causing it to shatter. The bandit allegedly grabbed a vaporizer and then assaulted the clerk while he was trying to lock him inside the store. The man ultimately escaped the store and rode away on his motorcycle.The clerk spotted a SIM card on the ground and examined its contents, finding several video clips featuring the man who robbed him.A tip about the crime named the suspect's address as an apartment complex in Kent, Washington. Six 911 calls were made regarding the suspect's building on a recent evening, five of which involved the suspected robber, identified as Shaver, according to court records. One call from his fiancee reported that he shot himself, but the man told responding cops that it was a misunderstanding over a text message typo.An investigator, believing Shaver was the suspect, looked up his Facebook account. There, the sergeant found a photo of Richard Sherman shaking hands with a man who appeared to be the same one caught trying to rob the smoke shop in surveillance footage, as well as the man featured in the SIM card videos. Shaver's Department of Licensing photo on record also matched, court records indicate.Shaver was arrested May 2, but was released and asked to return to court to answer to his attempted robbery charge. Police arrested him again Friday for failing to appear in court. He remains jailed on $100,000 bail.

A Facebook photo featuring San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman and a fan helped detectives nab an attempted robber at a Washington state smoke shop last month.

Jason Shaver, 37, is charged with first-degree attempted robbery after a man tried to rob the Orillia Smoke Shop just outside Seattle.

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A man wearing a motorcycle club hooded sweatshirt and motorcycle helmet entered the store about 9 p.m. April 24, Kent police reports say. He picked several items and asked the clerk to place the items in his backpack.

He then reportedly left the store, prompting the clerk to remove the items from the man's bag. When he returned, he allegedly demanded the items back and also ordered the clerk to open the cash register.

When the clerk refused his orders, the man fired a gun from inside his hoodie pocket, grabbed his backpack and kicked a glass display case, causing it to shatter. The bandit allegedly grabbed a vaporizer and then assaulted the clerk while he was trying to lock him inside the store. The man ultimately escaped the store and rode away on his motorcycle.

The clerk spotted a SIM card on the ground and examined its contents, finding several video clips featuring the man who robbed him.

A tip about the crime named the suspect's address as an apartment complex in Kent, Washington. Six 911 calls were made regarding the suspect's building on a recent evening, five of which involved the suspected robber, identified as Shaver, according to court records. One call from his fiancee reported that he shot himself, but the man told responding cops that it was a misunderstanding over a text message typo.

An investigator, believing Shaver was the suspect, looked up his Facebook account. There, the sergeant found a photo of Richard Sherman shaking hands with a man who appeared to be the same one caught trying to rob the smoke shop in surveillance footage, as well as the man featured in the SIM card videos. Shaver's Department of Licensing photo on record also matched, court records indicate.

Shaver was arrested May 2, but was released and asked to return to court to answer to his attempted robbery charge. Police arrested him again Friday for failing to appear in court.